Planning decisions, policy, decision-makers, viability and owner intent — joined, so you know the odds before you commit.
Development Intent turns planning records into something you can actually use. Every application, appeal, officer, inspector, committee and consultant, in one place: who approves, who refuses, who wins on appeal, and how long it takes.
We believe planning data should be free for everyone, so the Atlas is open to browse. The intelligence tools alongside it go further: finding patterns, appraising sites and surfacing opportunities.
Site appraisal, comparable decisions, decision-maker profiles and delivery costs — the intelligence layer for developers and consultants. Keep scrolling for the full picture.
Explore the product ↓Every borough, ward, officer, inspector, committee and consultant track record — free for anyone to browse, with a taste of what the Pro tools reveal on top.
Open the Atlas →“We were pursuing a site until the data showed the likely financial contributions would make it unviable. Normally we wouldn’t have discovered that until the decision notice arrived.Development Director · London residential developer
Find and appraise sites, see off-market opportunities, and understand the planning, delivery and financial risks before you commit.
Find the evidence faster, understand what actually works, and give clients better-informed advice with less time spent researching.
Register interest, get your site pre-assessed, and connect with developers actively looking for opportunities.
Understand how planning risk affects lending, delivery timelines, viability and financial returns before capital is committed.
Development doesn’t stop at finding a site. It moves through four stages: finding opportunities, building a planning case, understanding who shapes the decision, and delivering the outcome.
Planning isn’t as unpredictable as it looks. Decisions, appeals, conditions and interventions leave patterns. What looks like instinct, experience or politics often becomes clearer when viewed across thousands of outcomes.
Different datasets become relevant at different stages of a project.
Owners register intent to sell directly, so the map surfaces pre-scored off-market sites. Open one for its full history — intent, decisions, comparables, constraints and the officers who’ll decide it.
Search every comparable decision, ranked by scale against outcome — the line your scheme has to stay under. Open any case for the policies cited and why it was approved or refused.
See how often the committee overrules the officer, and who flips the vote. Open it to profile the officers, inspectors, councillors and objectors who decide your application.
The condition load and the bill, benchmarked from comparable consented schemes. Open it for the full pre-commencement conditions and the S106 breakdown.
One decision tells you what happened. Thousands reveal why.
Which arguments succeed. Which concerns carry weight. How people influence outcomes. What consent really costs.
Approval holds to ~6 units, then falls off a cliff in conservation areas.
Explore →Lead with housing need and you win three times out of four. Density-only cases rarely land.
Explore →Same borough, same scheme — a 43-point approval spread between case officers.
Explore →Permission is the start, not the finish — pre-commencement conditions add months before you can build.
Explore →The questions change depending on where you sit in the process. The outcome is the same: better-informed decisions with fewer surprises.
“Two sites looked similar on paper. One carried significantly higher delivery burden and consent risk. The decision became obvious once the pattern was visible.”
“What previously required hours of searching through planning records, appeal decisions and committee reports could be understood in minutes once the relationships were visible.”
“The assessment gave us a much clearer understanding of the site’s potential before we started speaking to developers.”
“Understanding approval risk is useful. Understanding delivery burden and likely obligations before capital is committed is even more important.”
Every figure is drawn from planning decisions, committee minutes and PINS appeal records. Public records remain traceable. Derived analysis is documented and explained.
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